Quotes About Manipulation

You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It is just as simple as that.

A politician has an axe to grindWith which he aims to chop off half your mind.

A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can save the ship.

The statesman shears the sheep the politician skins them.

As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it?

The lives of all of us have been moulded largely by induction through suggestion.

When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it's almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated by anybody else.

It's all about what they can get out of me.

Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.

He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.